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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here,

My kid will need substantial accommodations wherever he goes.  None of those accommodations change the curriculum.  That’s pretty much the definition of accommodations.

Ideally if he attends half time, it would be a consistent half time, so for example he goes to periods 1. 2, 3 and 4 consistently and takes 2 classes through the FCPS online system.  Add in some summer classes, and some credits carried over from middle school, and maybe a fifth year, and hopefully he would make it through.

If there is anyone whose child has been to TJ with an IEP, I would love to hear from them.[/quote]

Accommodations definitely change the curriculum if every kids has to take the much harder TJ version of a class and yours can coast through the online version— and most FCPS online classes aren’t even honors.  If every kid takes Calculus based Geisystems with Bio, Chen and Physics as pre-recs and yours takes watered down FCPS non-honors Earth science, that changes the curriculum. If every kid has to take integrated 2 block humanities and deal with all the extra projects and your kid has non-honors US History, that changes the curricum. If your kid doesn’t do TJ level senior labs, or senior lab pre-recs, that changes the curriculum.

You are asking for your kid to sort of attend TJ, and take watered down on-honors classes while every other kid has to take TJ level classes.  That isn’t an accommodation. It’s changing the curriculum.

Believe me, lots of kids want to take online history instead of HUM 1 or 2. But, integrated Humanities is a core part of the curriculum.  [/quote]

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